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2024-Roll-135 (Hasselblad 500C/M)

A few from today's roll of HP5. Just because.

Howm vs a giant Org-mode outline

For a long time, all of my notes went into an outline in single Org-mode file. I love outlines, so this was just swell. But...

Trees vs Tags...fight!

Garrit Frank, Fuck Trees, Use Tags: “I believe that these tree-like directory structures are inherently flawed, and that tagging systems are superior in almost every...

Did you know that one quarter of 2024 is already gone? ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25%

Using the reMarkable 2 as Read-Later device

I know, I know, the reMarkable 2 tablet is designed as a digital replacement for writing on paper. It's not necessarily meant as a document...

Canceled my Spotify subscription

I canceled my Spotify Premium (Family) subscription today. Finally. This has been such a long time coming. It's my fault, though. You see, my wife...

I can feel social media being bad for me, so I'm taking a break. Some weeks I truly enjoy scrolling through my feed on Mastodon and...

Status update on my move away from Evil mode

The short version is that while it's been frustrating, I'm getting more comfortable using the normal Emacs bindings with each passing day. I've been using...

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Thinking about putting my "daily posts" here on Scribbles. Daily posts are a collection of random notes recorded throughout each day. They may not each...

So why Scribbles? Why not Pika or Write.as or one of the other "easy-to-blog-just-start-typing" entries? I think it's because, out of all of them, Scribbles...

Today's experiments

My experiment using howm for notes continues. I can't pin down why I like it so much, but the fact that I'm using it by...

Letterbird contact form

Vincent has added integration with Letterbird.co, which is "A free contact form on the web that’s good enough." from the folks at Good Enough. This...

Challenging assumptions

My behavior in recent weeks has caused me to challenge many of my basic assumptions around blogs, note-taking, and text editing. It's been weird and...

I feel I've been neglecting my grandfatherly duties around here, so here's a photo from yesterday. I walked in and he was just sitting there...

Last night, I was thinking I should work on having better and more meaningful "experiences". Travel more, for example. See some Big Things. I'm reading...

I've added this blog's RSS feed to my everything.rss feed in RSSBridge. I wonder what title-less posts look like in the feed. If I've done...

Hyperbole, howm, and 0000-00-00-000000.txt

Yesterday I tried using the howm package for Emacs as a way to take quick notes. It's weird, and I assumed the experiment had ended....

CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife

Jeremy Ruston mentioned CyberChef, which I'd never heard of. It's a conversion utility implemented as a single HTML file. Handy! 

New blog who dis?

Let's say you've got yourself a fun new Scribbles blog. Let's also say you already have like three or four other blogs, between which there's...

PDFs on the reMarkable 2

The reMarkable tablet isn't really meant to be (primarily) a PDF reader, but that's what I've been using it for, mostly. I download a Markdown...

Scribbles 1...2...3...

Vincent was kind enough to let me try Scribbles, even though I am notoriously fickle when it comes to blogging platforms. Vincent has good instincts,...